scholarly journals The Influence of Creative Societies on the Formation of Art Education in Krasnoyarsk of the Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 963-971
Author(s):  
Liliia R. Stroy ◽  
Evgeniia S. Tsareva
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Central Russia ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Performing Culture ◽  
The City

The article considers the processes that took place in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk in the late 19th – early 20th centuries and were connected with the creation of cultural and educational societies. The principles of historicism and objectivity as well as the systemic approach form the key methodological basis of the research. Their application resulted in reconstruction of cultural and social life of the city and identification of the initiatives related to professional art. The use of unique archival documents and retrospective literature ensured a special focus on the history of the musical societies’ and art associations’ creation, that influenced not only the development of performing culture and exhibition activities in Krasnoyarsk, but also determined the scenario for the art education development in the city. The article concludes that the formation of cultural and educational movement in Siberia (the case of Krasnoyarsk) was discrete and took place several decades later than in Central Russia. At the same time, it was the establishment of creative unions that predetermined the scenario for the formation and development of first urban music schools and drawing classes

Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its dominating institution. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome provides a new picture of these developments, focusing on the extraordinary role played by members of the traditional elite, the senatorial aristocracy, in the redefinition of the city, its institutions, and spaces. During this period, Roman senators and their families became increasingly involved in the management of the city and its population, in building works, and in the performance of secular and religious ceremonies and rituals. As this study shows, for approximately three hundred years the houses of the Roman elite competed with imperial palaces and churches in shaping the political map and the social life of the city. Making use of modern theories of urban space, the book considers a vast array of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic documents to show how the former centre of the Mediterranean world was progressively redefined and controlled by its own elite.

Bar-Dancing, Palm Wine, and Letters

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-154
Author(s):  
Danielle Porter Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Sense Of Control ◽  
World War ◽  
Palm Wine ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Abstract This article focuses on the militarization of social life and leisure in Brazzaville during the Second World War and argues that efforts to instill a sense of control over the city could only suppress life so much, as many Congolese people were unwilling to completely succumb to the will of the administration in a war that seemed to offer very little to their communities or their city as a whole. Furthermore, drinking and dancing served as opportunities to engage with issues of class and race in the wartime capital of Afrique Française Libre. The history of alcohol consumption in Brazzaville is not simply the story of choosing whether or not to drink (or allow others to drink); rather, it is one of many stories of colonial control, exploitation, and racism that plagued Europe’s colonies in Africa during the Second World War.

scholarly journals The works of Leningrad popular science film studio “Lennauchfilm” in the 1970s – 1980s

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Mariya Vladimirovna Kalenichenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Film Directors ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Film Texts ◽  
Scientific Achievements

This article is dedicated to examination of works of the film directors of the Leningrad popular science film studio “Lennauchfilm” in the 1970s – 1980s. Based on the archival documents presented in the Central Archive of Literature and Art of Saint Petersburg, the author analyzes the work of the film studio: carries out classification of filmography by formal-semantic criterion, as well as determines the key processes typical to this time period. The following main trends are highlighted: natural science, technical-propagandistic, historical-revolutionary, military-patriotic, social life, history of art and culture. Special attention is given to the films that cover the topics, which have not previously been included in the field of popular science cinematography. The novelty of this research lies in classification of the thematic trends of the Leningrad film studio as an integral artistic system, as well as in comparison of the plots of popular science film texts by each direction over the two decades. As a result, the author identified the main trends, which broadened the thematic field in the work of the studio, as well as fundamentally changed the representations on the goals and tasks of popular science cinematography. The key object of popular science cinematography is being shifted during the Perestroika period. Emphasis is place not on science and technological achievements, but human and society. Film directors through their works conveyed the attitude of society towards science, raising the questions of transformation of ethics and morality in the context of scientific and technological revolution. The idea of the harm of scientific achievements and responsibility of the scholars before society is being advanced. Without any doubt, the works of the Leningrad film directors broadened the ideological-artistic range by offering the own vision of specificity of the Soviet popular science cinematography.

Fragments Towards an Impossible (Domestic) Genre of the Human in Kenyan Crime Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Wairimũ Mũrĩithi
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
International Media ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Extrajudicial executions and other forms of police violence in Kenya have always been an issue of significant concern in local and international media and human rights organisations. Reflective of this, scholarly interest in crime fiction in Kenya has grown significantly in recent years. However, the gendered implications of criminality – from sex work to errant motherhood to alternative modes of investigation – are still largely overlooked in postcolonial literary fiction and criticism. As part of a larger study on how women writers and characters shape crime fiction in Kenya, this paper critically engages with stories that the criminalised woman knows, tells, forgets,  incarnates, discards or hides about the city. It does so by examining the history of urban sex workers in Kenya, the representation of ‘urban women’ in postcolonial Kenyan novels and contemporary mainstream media, and the various (post) colonial laws that criminalise sex work. Through Justina, an elusive character in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust, I consider how (post)colonial legislative frameworks and social life attempt to manage “impossible domesticity” (Saidiya Hartman) inside and against the geo-history of gendered and classed criminality in urban Kenyan spaces. My purpose is to interrogate hegemonic constructions of the citizen – and by extension, of the human  – in Kenyan law and public morality Keywords: crime fiction, feminism, sex work, human, homo narrans

Wenger, Susanne (1915–2009)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Probst
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
Local School ◽  
Western History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Exclusive Focus ◽  
Applied Arts

Susanne Wenger was an Austrian artist and an instrumental figure in the history of Nigerian modernism. Born on July 4, 1915 in the city of Graz, Austria, Wenger first attended the local School of Applied Arts before she moved to Vienna to continue her art education, first at the School of Graphic Design and then, from 1933 to 1935, at the Academy of Art. Like other students, Wenger’s interest was in contemporary post-secessionist movements. The few works remaining from Wenger’s Viennese phase exemplify different styles ranging from pencil studies of plants and animal bodies, executed with an almost photographic precision, to expressionistic and cubist paintings, to surrealist crayon drawings. After the war she moved from Vienna to Paris, where she met editor Ulli Beier (1922–2011). The encounter with Beier marked a profound and lasting shift in Wenger’s life. The two fell in love and decided to spend the next years in Nigeria, where he got a job as a lecturer at the University of Ibandan. What they thought would be an adventure became a confrontation with the colonial reality. The colonial curriculum had an exclusive focus on Western history and culture. Interaction between Nigerians and members of the British faculty hardly existed. While Beier reacted to the colonial reality by seeking refuge in the newly established extramural department, which allowed him to work outside the campus, Wenger’s response was more private and personal. After a severe illness, she embarked on a journey—both spiritual and artistic—which resulted in the so-called "Osogbo experiment."

Théophraste Renaudot (1586–1653)

2018 ◽  
pp. 353-370
Author(s):  
Olivier Walusinski
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Gilles de la Tourette had a passion for the history of medicine and ideas, with a particular attachment to the city of Loudun, where his family had its roots. In 1884, he published a biography of another Loudun native, Théophraste Renaudot, a seventeenth-century physician who advocated reform in medical studies, calling into question the rigid scholastic method, limited to Hippocratic and Galenic medicine, in order to develop truly clinical practices as well as medical research. This chapter presents this biography and its genesis, Gilles de la Tourette’s hidden debt to Eugène Hatin, and unpublished letters received by Gilles de la Tourette after the book’s publication. Drawing on archival documents, the process Gilles de la Tourette initiated to erect a Renaudot statue in Paris and Loudun is detailed, as is his induction into the Ordre de la Légion d’honneur.

scholarly journals BUSINESS DOCUMENTATION AS RESEARCH SOURCE OF KYIV MUSIC ENVIROMENT IN LATE 19 — EARLY 20 c.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Olha Musiiachenko
Keyword(s):  
Government Policies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Concert Life

The results of the study of Kyiv music environment in the late 19 — early 20 centuries are presented through the analysis of business documentation. The peculiarities of researching the music environment of cities and the experience of using different types of sources when studying the music environment have been examined. The study of archival documents of Kyiv of this period allowed us to determine the specific components of the music environment of the city that were presented in the business documentation in late 19 — early 20 centuries. Our main source is data taken from archival institutions of Kyiv. We have identified blocks of data that reflects the conditions and tendencies of the city’s music life, such as the influence of government policies and censure restrictions on music and concert life and the formation of a contingent of musicians, the coexistence of old guild organization and new global trends in professional music making. The place of guilds in the music environment of Kyiv of late 19 century has been determined. Examples of applications for permission to perform songs in Ukrainian on the open stages of Kyiv and the reasons that prompted the performers or the administration of institutions to ask for such permits have been shown. Restrictions on residence in Kyiv that existed for Jewish musicians and Jewish entrants to music schools in Kyiv, as well as the reasons for the refusals have been presented. Data from reports and programs of educational institutions has been analysed. There are also examples of cases that illustrate the individual episodes of music life and allow to vividly recreate the atmosphere of the city at that time, such as an anonymous complaint of Kyiv citizens about the “obscenities” that took place in the Chateau de Fleur Garden and the Apollo Variety Theater, etc.

scholarly journals The character of the city of Verny (Almaty) in pre-revolutionary journals of historical themes in Russia (1854-1917)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei Sergeevich Tiurin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Themes ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The City

Faithful military fortification, founded in the middle of the XIX century in the south-eastern outskirts of the Russian Empire, was located far from the center of the state with a turbulent political and social life. At the same time in the middle of the XIX century, there is interest in the history of Russia, memoirs, internal politics and social sciences in general, that leading to the emergence of an unprecedented hitherto the number of periodicals historical themes. This article explores references to the city / Verny Fortification in the "Historical Gazette", "Notes of the Fatherland", "Russian Archive", "Niva", "Russian Gazette", "Russian Antiquity", "Russian Thought" and a number of other publications. Identified during the study, articles and notes on the city of Verny allow us to get an idea of what exactly the city remembers to travelers, what specific information about it was reflected in historical journals published between 1854 and 1917 in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

scholarly journals Arşiv Belgelerine Göre Selahaddin Eyyûbî'nin Kudüs Vakıfları / According to Archive Sources Salahaddin Ayyubi's Foundations in Jerusalem

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 403
Author(s):  
Nevzat Sağlam
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Charitable Foundations ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intensive Work ◽  
Independent Work ◽  
The City

<p><strong>Abstract </strong></p><p class="Nevzat">Jerusalem was remained under the dominion of the Latin kings for eighty-eight years untill conquered by Salahaddin Ayyubi. Salahaddin Ayyubi, who started an intensive work for reconstruction of the city following the conquest, has pioneered many services in areas of education, health, religion and culture with his foundation works.</p><p class="Nevzat">Although Salahaddin Ayyubi’s work on charitable foundations in Jerusalem is included in previous studies conducted on the history of Jerusalem, but no independent work specific to this issue has been done. In this article, archival documents that have not been published before were evaluated and the issues related to the foundations established by Salahaddin Ayyubi in Jerusalem and the administration of these foundations, especially in the recent periods of the Ottoman Empire, have been highlighted. Besides, the negative effects of negative developments in Jerusalem in the form of building and construction of temples on Salahaddin Eyyubi foundations has also been pointed out.</p><p><strong>Öz</strong></p><p class="Nevzat">Kudüs seksen sekiz yıl Latin Krallığı'nın hâkimiyetinde kaldıktan sonra Selahaddin Eyyûbî tarafından fethedilmiştir. Fethi müteakip şehrin yeniden imarı için yoğun bir çalışma başlatan Selahaddin Eyyûbî, kurduğu vakıf eserleriyle eğitim, sağlık, din ve kültür alanlarında birçok hizmete öncülük etmiştir.</p><p class="Nevzat">Kudüs tarihine dair yazılmış olan eserlerde Selahaddin Eyyubî'nin Kudüs'teki vakıflarına ilişkin bilgilere yer verilmekle beraber tespit edebildiğimiz kadarıyla müstakil bir çalışmanın konusu yapılmamıştır. Bu makalede daha önce yayınlanmamış arşiv belgeleri de değerlendirilerek Selahaddin Eyyubî'nin Kudüs'te tesis ettiği vakıflar ve özellikle Osmanlı'nın son dönemlerinde bu vakıfların idaresine ilişkin hususlar ele alınmıştır. Ayrıca Kudüs'te gayr-i müslimlerin mülk edinme ve mabet inşa etme çabalarının vakıflar aleyhine doğurduğu olumsuz gelişmelerden Selahaddin Eyyubî vakıflarının nasıl etkilendiğine de bu çalışmada yer verilmiştir.</p>

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